Brendan Foley
@thetruebrendanf.bsky.social
Part time imaginary friend. Contributor to http://Cinapse.co. Co-host of https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brendanagnew. BUY MY BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Terrors-1-Brendan-Foley-ebook/dp/B08YX8G6RK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=F79LKMDQ573T&dib=eyJ2IjoiM
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Andrew Garfield was going to play the monster in FRANKENSTEIN, but pulled out and Jacob Elordi stepped in.
Elordi’s followup movie is WUTHERING HEIGHTS.
So he went from doing Garfield’s role… to playing Heathcliff…
Elordi’s followup movie is WUTHERING HEIGHTS.
So he went from doing Garfield’s role… to playing Heathcliff…
February 19, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Andrew Garfield was going to play the monster in FRANKENSTEIN, but pulled out and Jacob Elordi stepped in.
Elordi’s followup movie is WUTHERING HEIGHTS.
So he went from doing Garfield’s role… to playing Heathcliff…
Elordi’s followup movie is WUTHERING HEIGHTS.
So he went from doing Garfield’s role… to playing Heathcliff…
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Whole Foods AI stores were entirely Indians watching on video feeds and ringing you up. Waymos have live human support partially driving them. And the AI that has “Hollywood shaking in its boots” is…stock footage. With face replacement.
Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.
Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.
From the above piece: “I hopped over to Seedance’s website and it only took 10 seconds to find green screen footage of two stuntmen performing the same fight choreography we see in the Cruise vs Pitt scene.” youtu.be/AKDWuFSy9DA
The Seedance Tom Cruise vs Brad Pitt fight scene - how was it really made?
YouTube video by Shokunin Studio
youtu.be
February 19, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Whole Foods AI stores were entirely Indians watching on video feeds and ringing you up. Waymos have live human support partially driving them. And the AI that has “Hollywood shaking in its boots” is…stock footage. With face replacement.
Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.
Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.
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BLUE MOON: If NOUVELLE VAGUE was Linklater's meditation on the thrill of being a young artist discovering your voice and finding your people, BLUE MOON is the counterpoint, a sour hangover of pissed away potential, lost years, and loneliness as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It's great, but it hurts.
It's great, but it hurts.
February 18, 2026 at 3:54 AM
BLUE MOON: If NOUVELLE VAGUE was Linklater's meditation on the thrill of being a young artist discovering your voice and finding your people, BLUE MOON is the counterpoint, a sour hangover of pissed away potential, lost years, and loneliness as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It's great, but it hurts.
It's great, but it hurts.
And we should've got to vote on who she'd kill, AMERICAN IDOL style.
she should have been allowed to kill one guy per season
February 19, 2026 at 1:15 AM
And we should've got to vote on who she'd kill, AMERICAN IDOL style.
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I think some people’s reluctance to engage with classic lit comes from the high school English class experience, which depends largely on what kind of teachers you got, but I’d argue the biggest problem with that system is that you just have so little life experience at that age
February 18, 2026 at 11:28 PM
I think some people’s reluctance to engage with classic lit comes from the high school English class experience, which depends largely on what kind of teachers you got, but I’d argue the biggest problem with that system is that you just have so little life experience at that age
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Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
February 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS
fun question: what’s the maddest you’ve ever been leaving a movie theater? not necessarily worst movie you’ve seen, but the one that just pissed you off the most. mine is Batman v Superman
February 18, 2026 at 10:42 PM
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS
I really liked it! And for as fast and loose as Fennell plays with the text, I do think she’s wired into the dark heart of WUTHERING HEIGHTS in a way that more literal adaptations might fail to achieve.
Off to wuther some heights.
February 18, 2026 at 10:35 PM
I really liked it! And for as fast and loose as Fennell plays with the text, I do think she’s wired into the dark heart of WUTHERING HEIGHTS in a way that more literal adaptations might fail to achieve.
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good news? GOOD news? GOoOo— no, just doesn’t sound natural, can’t be real.
February 18, 2026 at 10:26 PM
good news? GOOD news? GOoOo— no, just doesn’t sound natural, can’t be real.
Gerry what the hell
‘PLANE 2’ has crashed.
Gerard Butler decided he didn’t want to move forward with the film just 2 weeks before production began.
(Source: thedirect.com/article/plan...)
Gerard Butler decided he didn’t want to move forward with the film just 2 weeks before production began.
(Source: thedirect.com/article/plan...)
February 18, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Gerry what the hell
Off to wuther some heights.
February 18, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Off to wuther some heights.
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Is there a technology the left is excited about?" It's called the clamshell e-reader from It Follows, and I've been waiting for it since 2014
February 18, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Is there a technology the left is excited about?" It's called the clamshell e-reader from It Follows, and I've been waiting for it since 2014
OK but O'Brien's Raimi voice is dead-on.
February 18, 2026 at 3:41 PM
OK but O'Brien's Raimi voice is dead-on.
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No! One of the best Creepy Guys we had! 📽️
HEAT (1995) cast losing its great minor supporting characters left and right this week. 😔
HEAT (1995) cast losing its great minor supporting characters left and right this week. 😔
February 18, 2026 at 4:29 AM
No! One of the best Creepy Guys we had! 📽️
HEAT (1995) cast losing its great minor supporting characters left and right this week. 😔
HEAT (1995) cast losing its great minor supporting characters left and right this week. 😔
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she should have been allowed to kill one guy per season
February 17, 2026 at 10:13 PM
she should have been allowed to kill one guy per season
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Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
February 18, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
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The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 18, 2026 at 3:51 AM
The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires
BLUE MOON: If NOUVELLE VAGUE was Linklater's meditation on the thrill of being a young artist discovering your voice and finding your people, BLUE MOON is the counterpoint, a sour hangover of pissed away potential, lost years, and loneliness as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It's great, but it hurts.
It's great, but it hurts.
February 18, 2026 at 3:54 AM
BLUE MOON: If NOUVELLE VAGUE was Linklater's meditation on the thrill of being a young artist discovering your voice and finding your people, BLUE MOON is the counterpoint, a sour hangover of pissed away potential, lost years, and loneliness as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It's great, but it hurts.
It's great, but it hurts.
Ethan Hawke is so good in this role that it hurts to look at him.
Now Watching: BLUE MOON
February 18, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Ethan Hawke is so good in this role that it hurts to look at him.
Now Watching: BLUE MOON
February 18, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Now Watching: BLUE MOON
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Milt Kahl just having them wiggle their heads around just to show off I swear god damn inhuman god of an artist.
February 18, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Milt Kahl just having them wiggle their heads around just to show off I swear god damn inhuman god of an artist.
Legitimately, when I caught a glimpse of the video, my first thought was, "Who's the meth-y looking guy with RFK?" And then I realized who it was and oh how we laughed.
reposting shirtless kid rock onto my timeline is a hate crime.
February 18, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Legitimately, when I caught a glimpse of the video, my first thought was, "Who's the meth-y looking guy with RFK?" And then I realized who it was and oh how we laughed.
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Killing a French vampire with bread is painstaking.
June 28, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Killing a French vampire with bread is painstaking.
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"Anyone can throw a bunch of cool-sounding ideas into a big budget blender, but only a filmmaker as engaged and experienced as Yuen could make a movie like this seem so commanding and on such a consistent basis,” writes @simonsaybrams.bsky.social about BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS.
Blades of the Guardians review: Yuen Woo-ping delivers another wuxia wonder
A boisterous, but unhurried action-adventure that never feels sloppy.
www.rogerebert.com
February 18, 2026 at 12:25 AM
"Anyone can throw a bunch of cool-sounding ideas into a big budget blender, but only a filmmaker as engaged and experienced as Yuen could make a movie like this seem so commanding and on such a consistent basis,” writes @simonsaybrams.bsky.social about BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS.